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Quotes About Time

Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now? she says.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You wake up, and you're nowhere. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. You wake up, and that's enough.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It happens fast for some people and slow for other, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It would be that time--late at night-- when your ears reach out for any sound. When you can see more with your eyes closed than open.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Rant Casey used to say, No matter what happens, it's always now... Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It took my whole life to buy this stuff.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. (Narrator)
~ Chuck Palahniuk
They want me to account for my next ten years. Their way, everything in your life turns into an item on a list. Something to accomplish. You get to see how your life looks flattened out. The shortest distance between two points is a timeline, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How could you ever bring yourself to love so deeply if you truly knew how brief a lifetime could be?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Quand'è che il futuro è passato da essere una promessa a essere una minaccia?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
El futuro que tendrás mañana no es el mismo futuro que tenías ayer.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
WHat I learned is, it's never too late to save anybody. And it's always too late. And what are the chances you'll make any difference?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Every job too miserable most times, is nothing compared to just waiting.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's a Cinderella story, only at midnight she turns back into a fugitive.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A different toothbrush waits in every time zone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is the insomnia. Try to relax a little more with every breath out, but your heart's still racing and your thoughts tornado in your head. Nothing works. Not guided meditation. You're in Ireland. Not counting sheep. You count up the days, hours, minutes since you can remember falling asleep.
~ Chuck Palahniuk